A 17-year-old youth has been detained after he threw a petrol bomb at a police station in the West Flemish city of Kortrijk. No one was injured in the attack on the police station on the Minister de Taeyelaan.
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Vandal throws petrol bomb at Kortrijk police station
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The incident happened at around 8.30am on Tuesday morning. The Molotov cocktail was thrown at the entrance of the police station. The resulting fire was extinguished straight away and shortly after the attack, police were able to apprehend a suspect. The West Flemish public prosecutor's office is investigating the attack.
"We won’t be intimidated”
In a reaction to Tuesday morning’s attack the Mayor of Kortrijk Vincent Van Quickenborne (liberal) told VRT News that "I would like to stress that we as a city are 100% behind our police. Our police men and women work every day to keep our city safe. This is not only an attack on our police, but also on the safety of all of us”.
"Without going any deeper into this particular incident. I can say that the city authorities and the police will not be intimidated by this kind of repugnant behaviour. We will continue to carry out through checks in and around the railway station. We are going ahead with our plans to open a extra police station near to the station”.